[imText1]The North Korean National Security Agency held a press conference regarding the previous catch of the conspiring spies that were caught on the 5th of this month.
There is high possibility that it was fabricated by NSC and North Korean authorities because there have been quite a few spy fabrication incidents in the past, according to many defectors in South Korea.
North Korea made “Anti-Spy Struggle Museums” which contains all of the involved evidence of the spy incidents. North Korea authorities have spent the last half century emphasizes “anti-imperialism and anti-America” through the Anti-US-struggle Museum.
In Chongjin Anti-US-struggle Museum, there are even pictures of a gold smuggler who was fabricated and accused of spying and thereby executed.
Case 1: The entire family of the gold smuggler accused of spying
Han Cheol Joon (pseudonym, 36), the North Korean defector who arrived to South Korea in 2002 from Ontan-gu, Onsung in North Hamkyung still remembers the incident on which a family was suddenly accused of being a spy. The picture of an entire family is now being exhibited in the Anti-Spy-Struggle Museum with relevant photos.
The person of this spy incident currently resided in Hamheung, South Hamkyung and he used to be a normal family man who worked at a foreign currency firm. His name is Jang Kyung Min.
Han said, “It was in 1988. One day in October around 9 pm, the mother of Mr. Jang brought home some stuff that she used in her kitchen to our house. Upon our surprise, she said that she was sorry for any wrong thing she’s done in the past and asked us for forgiveness. My mother and Mr. Jang’s mother talked the whole night and the next day, the entire Jang family had fled to Cina.”
At that incident, Jang family was crossing the Tumen River and the father and a 7 year old daughter fell into the water and died.
Han stated, “At the meeting of People’s Unit, they announced that the Jang family were bunch of traitors and the survivors of that family would be repatriated from China immediately.”
The next is Mr. Han’s testimony on the incident of Jang Kyung Min’s family.
“The rest of the surviving Jang family was all repatriated to North Korea. And I lost touch from the family ever since. There was a scary incident. The deceased Mr. Jang and his daughter were rolled up in a sack and were buried in the intersection road. It meant that because they were traitors, they needed to be stepped on even when they were dead.”
Even back then, Mr. Jang was a gold smuggler who fled to China, but he was never publicly announced of his so called “spying” acts.
Han visited the Chongjin Anti-spy Struggle Museum with his friends when he became a 17 year old student. When he was looking around the museum, he was surprised to see the picture of Mr. Jang. He was also surprised to see that all of Jang family’s acquaintances were turned into spies.
“Jang was not a spy, he was a gold smuggler. Everyone knows that. In North Korea, all of the found gold is suppose to go to Kim Jong Il. Hence, gold smuggling is a huge sin and crime. It was a case of where he fled to China because he was found out of his gold smuggling by the NSA.”
Case 2: Carry a bible, you’re a spy
An Keum Sook (pseudonym, 24 years old when she was caught) used to live near Kasan-ri Station in Bocheon who crossed the Yalu River in the mid 1990s to flee from the “March of Tribulation (the period of the great famine in the mid-1990s).”
Since her first attempt at fleeing North Korea in 1996, she went back to North Korea twice to support her single mother back home. On her third time back, she carried back a bible. She was arrested by the border guards and her bible was found.
She was then arrested and accused by the National Security Military and was never seen again.
Park Myung Cheol, one of the North Korean defectors who came to South Korea in 2005 from Yangkang said, “The North Korea made propaganda that she was a South Korean spy who had been educated in a mission school in Heilongjiang, China by South Korean National Intelligence Service.”
Park also argued that, “When you go visit the Museum located in Hyesan, Yangkang, there is also that bible Ms. Ahn used to carry. North Korean government puts her picture up in the museum, posting the justice of Anti-spying struggle.”
Park said, “In North Korea, spies are not something to think a lot about. If you tell your relatives in China about your wellbeing here, you could be considered a spy. Recently, in the North Korea-China border region, if the civilians try to contact their families who live in South Korea, they could automatically be considered spies. Therefore, it really is up to how NSA is feeling or thinking that time.”
North Korea’s Social Safety Agency made the “investigation team” which is an organization in charge of arresting spies in the end of 1990s. The Agriculture Department Secretary Suh Gwang Hee and South Pyungan Party Chief Secretaries Suh Yoon Seok were both executed as alleged spies. There is also an alleged claim that 25,000 innocent civilians accused of spies at this time.
There is high possibility that this case of spy is also currently being used as one of the indoctrination samples in the museum.
The Anti Spy Struggle Museum is located in every main city of North Korea and it is maintained by the provincial NSA.
